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Mose Allison Quotes

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

Mose Allison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1927

Topics

People Obscure Standards Well Most

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Andrew Motion

Moment Me True Try Write Poet

You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.

Andrew J. West

Good Character Job Thinking Talking

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

John Hickenlooper

Community Empathy Democracy Decisions

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Robert Ballard

Science Wrong Earth Student Drift

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Mary Lou Williams

Love Music Me End Musicians House

This guy in L.A. asks for my autograph every time I see him. Then I find out he's eBaying 'em for $50. I'm flattered, but no one's going to pay $50 for anyone's autograph, let alone mine.

Julia Voth

Alone Time Find Pay See Out

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Character Story You Way Same Your

Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names - my last name is Weir. That's very, very close to 'weird,' or 'queer' and any of those words. But I've never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don't like me, or people don't like me... It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs.

Johnny Weir

Words People Me Name Weird Stronger

Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know when it is time to seek help from more experienced professionals. I'm a primary care doctor. It doesn't mean I know everything. When something is beyond my competency or expertise, I seek consultation from my colleagues.

David Shulkin

Good Time Doctor Colleagues Help

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

Brian Sandoval

Family I Am Proud Heritage Am

I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.

Anushka Sharma

Fall Burden Want Carry Trap Flop

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

Peter Shilton

Music I Am Person Big Well Stuff